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The Hisense UR8 brings RGB mini-LED to a more affordable price point, delivering impressive backlight control, good sports performance, and a ton of gaming features. Unfortunately, its colors, arguably its main selling point, are disappointing, not providing the wow-factor I was looking for. While this is still a good evolution
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Intel hasn't released a graphics-focused desktop processor since the beloved (but not for its graphics) Broadwell-C family back in 2015. Since then, AMD has completely cornered the market for budget desktop gaming and SFF PC builds with the socketed Ryzen G series APUs, like the Ryzen 7 8700G
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Save $100: Right now, this Amazon Fire TV Soundbar Plus is down to $150 at Amazon. This is a $100 in savings and represents a 40% discount. At this price, the soundbar is just $5 more than its lowest-ever recorded price. Amazon doesn’t list a deadline for this deal,
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The Pixel 11, the Pixel 11 Pro Fold and the Pixel Watch 5 will be unveiled in just two days at the Made by Google event on Wednesday, Aug. 12. We also expect to see the debut of the standard Pixel 11 smartphone. As the date nears, leaks and rumors
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If you’ve been holding out on buying Valve’s ludicrously expensive home console, you may have saved yourself from more than an empty wallet. European customers who ordered a Steam Machine or Steam Controller may be the victims of a personal information data breach after one of Valve’s
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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North Korean government snoops are operating LLMs locally and collecting technology to weave AI into their attack operations, according to South Korean security firm Genians. The researchers said they observed Kimsuky setting up and operating local LLM environments using Ollama, GPT4All, and Msty, experimenting with other AI tools such as
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YouTube announced on Monday that new creators will have to meet higher thresholds to begin earning money from ads and subscriptions. Creators who want to start earning on the platform will need at least 8,000 qualified watch hours over the past year or 20 million qualified Shorts views in
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Social media companies like Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and Google are facing a long road of litigation over claims that they intentionally designed their products to be addictive to minors. According to a report from Reuters, San Francisco’s 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied these platforms’ attempt to
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In Brief 11:31 AM PDT · August 10, 2026 Competing Android app stores are now back on Google Play in the U.S., and Aptoide is the first to take advantage of the new option. On Monday, the Portugal-based app distributor brought its games store back to Google Play after
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For years, technical debt has been treated as something organizations could manage over time and chip away at between larger priorities. That’s no longer the case. Today, technical debt is actively working against transformation. It’s slowing down cloud adoption, increasing costs, and limiting how quickly organizations can respond
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Just weeks after launching a keypad for vibe coders, OpenAI is said to be developing a portable, screen-free speaker as its next consumer hardware product, People familiar with the project described it to Bloomberg as an AI companion for the home, connecting users to ChatGPT and handling tasks on the
